The citizens of Veraya were offered a choice: to surrender and be mercifully consumed by nothingness, or to fight and be destroyed piece by piece.

After months of research, the Council have called a meeting for those involved in researching how to heal a God to report on their progress and findings, and to try and devise a plan. Three months have passed, and the Twofold Goddess’s condition worsens day by day. Her human children fight to save her, while every day her connection to them withers.

As Abominations begin to converge on Veraya under the leadership of the Magelord known as Xeele, the inhabitants begin to prepare to fight not just for their home, but for the future of their world. Trapped inside the city with no way for supplies or personnel to enter or exit, vital resources and morale are starting to run low.

The newly-born Eidolon Train known as the Taniwha prepares to make her maiden voyage, promising to return with urgently needed reinforcements. The far-away homes of many in the city are starting to fall: subverted by Magelords, swallowed by the Rangata Rift, and in the case of the forest tower of Gai’kassinen, simply gone and only barren earth remaining.

Some citizens of Veraya who once dreamed clearly find their visions have become foggy and indistinct. Those who still dream clearly speak of scenes of death and carnage and visions of a beautiful future, side by side.

In the dreams of Humanity, the Gods fight their own brutal war against a direct assault by the resurrected Magelords, a war that spills over to their Knights waking in the night with fresh wounds or suffering violent seizures in their waking hours. Some Paladins have been overtaken by a strange madness, overcome by the grief of their otherworldly lieges for their fallen sister.

And in the heart of Veraya, the Goddess of Creation lies dying in an open grave, while a group of humanity search urgently for a way to heal her. If she dies, the potential for creation, wisdom, and beginnings she represents die with her, and humanity will embrace oblivion..